Butte semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1886-1890, 1887-08-03
SODA. SPRINGS HOTEL.
Some Particulars of This Delightful SUM
mel Resort and Its Surroundings.

To-day the formal opening Of the Soda
Springs Hotel at Soda Springs, Idaho, will
take place. Ajolly crowd went down there
last night, among Others. ]. {. Dickerson,
Harry Hamlin, Chas. F. Lloyd, G. Nixon.
and wife, w. T. Stewart, II. G. Hoerchsn-r,
Harry Higgins, DR.. w. 8. Norcross, o.
stemberg and DR.. Sarchet. The train left
on time at 7:1O. Soda Springs is sixty.
eight miles east of Pocatello on the Oregon
Short Line. It is situated on q plateau
through which Bear River run and is u r
rounded by q range OF hills. In tho same
vicinity are Soda Creek and Blackfoot
another valley. All these streams possess
SPLENDID TROUT FISHING,
and the Blackfoot is the finest stream in
the country for angling and enjoys q
national reputation. The shooting in the
hills is excellent. prairie chickens being very
plentiful at this season. This section used
to be q perfect forest of cedar, but they
have been cut down in such quantities by
the Mormons that it is almost denuded OF
trees. They are, however, s~pripging up
again, and it is the intention of the COM
pany that WINS the springs to encourage
their grow tn. With this end in view they
will lay out a park, in which they intend to
form an..artiicial lake by damming up the
waters of Soda Creek. which passes by the
hotel, so as to bring the shores of the lake
up close to the hotel. This lake will be
large enough for boating, and when. COM
pleted will make q
MOST %ArrRAcr1vE RESORT.
The hotel is a three-story building OF
q~uadrangular. shape, seventy-six by one
hundred and twenty feet, fanked with four
towers. the one next the railroad, which
passes close to the hotel, being octagonal
in shape and n hundred feet high. In
this is an observatory about sixty feet
from the ground. The three remaining
towers are sixty feet high. There are fifty
guest rooms. which are large, roomy apart
ments with fourteen.foot ceilings. There
are six bath rooms, two on the third floor.
Der shop on the first floor. The building is
hard finished throughout and is lighted by
the incandescent electric light, run by water
power. It is furnished with electric bells
throughout. A covered porch ten feet
wide extends all round the first floor ex-
cept in the rear, and in 'front.' there is q
balcony in both the second and third
stories. The architect was Mr.. Burton, OF
Salt Lake, who was shot a couple of weeks
after the building was started, and the
WORK wAs CARRIED ON ID
by Contractor D. r. McDevitt with his fore
man i'll charge of the work, E. W. Hy de. by
whom the building has been carried to com.
pletion entirely to the satisfaction of the
Natural Mineral Water Company, of which
DR.. Allen Fowler, of Salt Lake, is Presi-
dent, and Hon. w. A. Clark, Vice Presi-
dent. 1t has cost the company already
$40. 600, and they intend to expend $751;
900 in addition in identifying the grounds.
The water with which the hotel is supplied
comes through pipes from a spring a mile
and a half away. The spring ia 70 feet
higher than the hotel, which affords pres.
sure enough to send the water to the high
est rooms of the house. There are two
fire plugs on each floor with hose attached,
and the force can throw the water over the
roof of the building. The work of building
the hotel was begun ON the 10th of May
and completed on the Goth instant. There
were
FROM THIRTY TO FIFTY
men working steadily on the building. The
towers are Chinese style, but the prevailing
architecture of the building more nearly
approaches Queen Anne than any other.
It is painted in variegated colors and the
outside work is all tinted. The roof is
painted with a red mineral paint which is
practically fire-proof. The ~lessees have.
spared no cost in furnishing, and the ap-
pearance of the house inside is most cheer.
full and will compare favorably with the
hotels at any summer resort in the coun-
try. Within a radius of a quarter OF q
mile there are any number of springs, some
OF them very big. They vary in character
and strength. In conclusion it may be
d that the climate is the ~pleasantest
during the sumner that a be imaeined,
the nights being invariably cool. and alto
gether a more delightful summer resort
cannot no fonnd in the Wos%